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A Study of women's position among the Garo
Man in India • 45 (1) • Published In 1965 • Pages: 27-36
By: Goswami, M. C., Majumdar, Dhirendra Narayan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Goswami and Majumdar argue that in spite of Garo society being matrilineal, women are no more powerful than their sisters in patrilineal societies. Descent, inheritance, family succession, and residence are reckoned matrilineally, however, real power is invested in the group of matrilineally related males, or CHRA. Although women inherit property, men manage it. Women are not involved in decision-making on the village level. A man's word is final in the home and village. A woman is expected to show respect to all male elders and must seek CHRA approval if she wants to divorce her husband. According to the authors, all spirits are male-like. The authors present three cases of marital discord.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Household
- Family relationships
- Lineages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Garo Hills Autonomous District, Maghalaya State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. C. Goswami ; D. N. Majumdar
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 35)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sa 64000670
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garo (Indic people)